# Mistral OCR API vs OpenDocRouter (slim)

> Mistral OCR API scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against OpenDocRouter's 56.6 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. OpenDocRouter leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do docs parse. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-08

Mistral OCR API scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against OpenDocRouter's 56.6 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. OpenDocRouter leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do docs parse.

- Mistral OCR API: C 58.8, rank #393 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mistral-ocr.min.md
- OpenDocRouter: C 56.6, rank #434 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opendocrouter.min.md
- Mistral OCR API, good for Turning PDFs and scans into Markdown for RAG or reading at a flat, low page price. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Transparency & trust, 74 against 47.
- OpenDocRouter, good for Agents that need page-level markdown from PDFs and images and want to choose or compare models on price and published benchmark scores with one key. Ahead on Security & auth, 40 against 35; Maintenance & community, 65 against 48.

| Category | Mistral OCR API | OpenDocRouter |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 43 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 83 | 84 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 35 | 40 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 48 | 65 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Mistral OCR API | OpenDocRouter |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Mistral AI | LlamaIndex |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.mistral.ai/v1` | `https://www.opendocrouter.ai/v1` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for docs parse | not published | $0.80 per 1,000 pages |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (SDKs) | Proprietary service under the LlamaIndex Terms of Service with an OpenDocRouter addendum. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are MIT |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-08-31 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-25 | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-03 | 2024-03-30 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 769 stars | 127 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4.5/5 (2) | none |